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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Blend 2.0 August Preview Release

by Don Burnett

 

Well if you haven't noticed it, this week Microsoft released another enhanced preview release of Blend 2.0. It has a bunch of new features that people have been asking for.

It now supports Visual Studio 2008 beta 2  and framework version targeting, so you can work with and open projects in both. Another new feature is creating your own user controls through re-factoring.

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If you missed resizing text in the text editor you can now go in and change the font size and type you are working with and now Word-Wrap (WOO HOO!) options.

Resizing handles have been added to the artboard so you can resize and scale elements quickly and easily.

Making User Controls inside of Blend is now possible, and will be extended further in their next release, it has problems with animation at the moment.

There is a new storyboard "picker" that lets you rename a storyboard and also has a "New" and "Delete" function.

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